{"id":2529,"date":"2010-12-06T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/26c07a72a51052ab"},"modified":"2010-12-06T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T01:51:07","slug":"taleb-of-black-swan-mocks-boring-bernanke-suckers-wage-slaves-books-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/taleb-of-black-swan-mocks-boring-bernanke-suckers-wage-slaves-books-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb of `Black Swan&#039; Mocks `Boring&#039; Bernanke, Suckers, Wage Slaves: Books &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, Taleb challenges us to think for ourselves, a<br \/>\njob too many shirk. He\u2019s as severe with the high and mighty as<br \/>\nhe is with the plebs. <\/p>\n<p>At one point, for example, he voices concern about \u201cthe<br \/>\ngrowing separation of the ethical and the legal.\u201d A footnote<br \/>\nreads: \u201cFormer U.S. Treasury secretary \u2018bankster\u2019 Robert Rubin,<br \/>\nperhaps the biggest thief in history, broke no law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As for Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, he inspired this<br \/>\nline: \u201cHow superb to become wise without being boring; how sad<br \/>\nto be boring without being wise.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull.<br \/>\nTo be fair, Taleb challenges us to think for ourselves, a<br \/>\njob too many shirk. He\u2019s as severe with the high and mighty as<br \/>\nhe is with the plebs.<br \/>\nAt one point, for example, he voices concern about \u201cthe<br \/>\ngrowing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}